Run This World with Nicole DeBoom Podcast

Four years ago Becky Piper opened the door of her home in Guam to find three men intent on a home invasion at any cost. She woke up in the hospital - paralyzed on the right half of her body. Today Becky is considered disabled in that her paralysis is still evident and she will forever combat the effects of a traumatic brain injury. But she is SO. NOT. DISABLED in every other sense of the word. Bec...

Meet Nick Symmonds. He is truly a man on the move. Nick is a 2-time Olympian, has medaled at 13 USA Championships (including 9 Golds). Along the way he learned to love running (believe it or not, he did NOT love running when he started). He became a staunch advocate for athletes' right. He started Run Gum - an incredible, innovative company that solves a problem many athletes face. He wrote a book...

Cat Bradley had a 0.1% chance of winning the Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run based on the 1,100 ballots that had been cast. In fact, the 1 ballot that predicted she would win was submitted by her boyfriend so she doesn't actually count that one! In the end, Cat Bradley came out of relative obscurity to win one of the most prestigious ultrarunning events in the world, against the toughest com...

Maria Uspenski is the founder of The Tea Spot and so much more. She's a mom of two amazing daughters, entrepreneur, MIT educated engineer, former ballerina, fluent in many languages, cancer survivor, and tea lover, advocate and expert. She’s one of those people who leads through her actions and how she treats other people. Today’s episode is inspirational, thought-provoking, educational and will l...

Rip Esselstyn is the first guest to be on the show twice. I interviewed him for episode #5 called Eating Strong Food (notice the name of the episode hasn't changed much!). I’ve had such a huge response to Rip and his message, I knew I would interview him again. To refresh your memory, Rip is a former pro triathlete turned firefighter turned health and fitness crusader through his Engine 2 movement...

Meet Joe De Sena. He's done many things in his life but is most well-known as the founder of the Spartan Race, one of the most daunting event series ever. He basically took the concept of running a grueling long distance event, and then added obstacles that most people would think were crazy. If you don't do an obstacle, your punishment? Burpees! I've known Joe since I made the very first appearan...

Meet Ashley Eisenmenger the youngest guest I've ever had on the show. At just 20 years old, Ashley is taking the world by storm as an elite triathlete gunning for her first World Paratriathlon Championships. Ashley has been legally blind since birth. Her only vision is the ability to see some light with her left eye. She was born a triplet with a condition called retinopathy of prematurity. Her si...

Meet Monica Leonard - Pediatric nurse turned entrepreneur, mom, wife, and trailblazer in the world of chemical-free living. Actually that's the wrong way to say it, as Monica educated me, there are all sorts of chemicals in the world. Some are really bad for you and much more abundant than we realize. Monica didn't intend to start a business that focuses on healthy living. She got here through an...

Meet Meagan O'Nan. Speaker, Author, Life Coach, Peace Warrior. She's got it all going on! But she wasn't always living her truth. Meagan is from a fairly conservative southern community, so when she faced her family and friends to tell them that she is gay, she wasn't met with open arms and immediate acceptance. Meagan has traveled a brave road, encouraging herself and those around her to embrace...

It's Mother's Day. Time for a little peek behind the curtain. Swear word alert: I say the F word once and then repeat it a few more times when telling a story that involves a broken toe. If you are in the car with kids while listening, you may have to explain what that word means! I'm feeling emotional right now. Maybe because it's Mother's Day. Maybe because it's that time of month. Maybe because...

Meet Latoya Shauntay Snell. Latoya is a 32 year old Skirt Sports ambassador. That's how we first came together. But there's more. Much more. She's the mom of a 9 year old boy recently diagnosed with a lifelong disease, type 1 diabetes. She’s a woman who has gone through and is overcoming personal issues from health to work to self-confidence. She is outspoken, funny, wise and humble. She has multi...

Meet Chef Nick - the Executive Chef at Broomfield, Colorado-based Noodles & Company. Nick is a very cool, down to earth family man who has a clear passion for food and creation. He grew up in a food-centric family, worked his first job in a restaurant and the fire was stoked. After culinary school in NY, he worked every position at a variety of restaurants before landing at Noodles. There’s so muc...

Meet Colleen Cannon - former professional triathlete & the founder of Women’s Quest. Before retreats were a thing, before women’s-only anything was a thing, before the internet even, there was Colleen. She was one of the most prolific triathletes in the 80s and 90s. She is a World Champion and multiple time National Champion, but her background wasn’t as a purist swim, bike, runner. She rode horse...

Meet Barb Lazarus, pioneer in the world of girls' empowerment. Barb graduated from a career in the US Attorney’s office and has made it her second life’s mission to empower and give back to girls. She’s the founder of Game On Sports Camp 4 Girls. These are year round camps for girls ages 4-14, that started in Chicago and has now expanded into Ohio and Colorado. The girls are introduced to all spor...

Jo & Jules are two incredible women who have created more than a program. They’ve created a Movement. People do the cleanse and then make it an annual jump starter to realign their bodies and remember the habits that move them back to “best health.” I did the Conscious Cleanse after meeting one of the founders, Jules Pelaez. The minute I saw her I knew who she was. The glow gave her away! I'm not...

Meet Allen Lim. Physiologist. Coach. Entrepreneur. He's a former coach of the cycling stars who brought innovative sports nutrition company Skratch Labs to life after years of making his "secret drink mix" for athletes in grueling endurance events like the Tour de France. Allen and I have run in the same circles for years but we never really hung out until this interview. Here's what I found: An A...

Meet Jackie Ros - she's a high-energy, innovative-thinker who started the revolutionary tech company Revolar just two years ago. Revolar makes wearable tech devices that allow you to communicate with your loved ones with just a push of a button. If you are actually in danger, it seems like it would be easy to make a phone call, but in the heat of the moment, it's unrealistic to fumble for a phone,...

Meet Chris Waddell - speaker, author, athlete (he has 13 Paralympic medals), philanthropist and all-around adventurer. After a ski accident left him paralyzed and unable to walk while in college, Chris simply moved on with his life and adapted his passions around his new body. But as all elite athletes understand, you can only compete at a certain level for so long and at some point it’s time to a...

Meet Mara Abbott former (barely!) professional cyclist. That means she literally rode her bike for a living. I say that loosely because as you will hear, women cyclists don’t really make a living in the sport, compared to the men. Mara is one of the most accomplished women ever on the bike, winning the Giro and fresh off a bittersweet 4th place finish at the 2016 Olympic Road Race, after a brave b...

Last week I did a photo shoot in Savannah, Georgia. We chose it for two reasons. 1) It's usually decent weather so you can make the winter look like spring, 2) Free place to stay! My parents, Gail and Roger Molzahn, retired there about 20 years ago and every time I go back, I revert immediately to Kid Mode. The first thing I always do is walk in and open the fridge. I have no idea why I do this. I...

Meet Reyna Bryan, a rising star in a very dirty world. She made her name by founding Recycling is Sexy, an organization that is building an army of superhero consumers: Empowered, Informed and Vocal. She has a passion for helping us keep this beautiful world in one piece as all signs point to the fact that we are polluting ourselves out of it. Reyna sees the world in a different way than many of u...

Meet Siri Lindley. She was the best short course triathlete in the world for two years, despite the fact that she could barely swim a lick before she started the sport in the mid 90s. After she retired, Siri gravitated to coaching, because she is innately called to give much more than she ever takes. She became an incredible coach, not surprisingly, I consider her to be the best coach in the world...

Meet Isabel McDevitt, a woman in the forefront of social enterprise innovation, namely for bucking the system and creating a new paradigm for how societies treat homeless people. Isabel started her career working for a nonprofit in New York called the Doe Fund. There, she created Ready Willing & Able, a platform of entrepreneurial businesses created specifically to help train, employ and reenter f...

Samm Grace is still relatively young, in her early 30s, but she’s been through a traumatic, life-changing experience. When she was 25, she discovered that her kidneys were failing – when she was pregnant with her son. Samm persevered - even after being told to terminate her pregnancy - and came out the other side with improved numbers but still in danger of kidney failure. I think you’ll be inspir...

Meet Meredith Atwood - author, leader, transformation pioneer. Ten years ago, Meredith was someone she didn't recognize. She was an out of shape, work-obsessed, mom of two with blinders on. She had lost herself and didn't even know it. Until the day her eyes were opened and someone said to her, "Today is the first day of the rest of your life."